Be objective. That’s the credo my newsroom presented to me, the young cub, four decades ago. But it did not require much time for me to realize that objectivity was merely an […]
Climate scientists still besieged
S&R interviewed Martin Vermeer, first author of a recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper on sea level rise, about how much context the published CRU emails contained. In addition […]
We need better news stories, but how will we get them?
The media-reform activist organization, Free Press, has set up a press-bashing site called mediaFail, offering minimal instruction about what constitutes a bad news story versus a good news story. Thus we must […]
Free Press' mediaFail site a bad idea from a good organization
Read a news story you didn’t like? See a news story you think really sucked? See any news product you believe represents a failure of the American news media (no matter what […]
In the future, online news will make us all feel fine …
The Newspaper Association of America is crowing of late over the growth of audiences at online news websites. Newspaper companies drove record traffic to their websites in the first quarter of 2010, […]
iPhone art: Jellyfish
by mentalswitch As with most or all of my recent posts, shot and edited completely on my phone. Gotta love technology!
Snow job: sick nasty shreddin' at The Times' website? Huh?
“OMG!” I thought. There, on the website of the Gray Lady — a moniker attached to The New York Times for its past penchant for words over photographs — was a headline […]
Three of four misconduct allegations against Michael Mann found to be without merit (updated)
Update: I’ve added a few more examples of spin and accusations of bias against PSU as well as some good reporting examples that were not posted as of last night. After the […]
iPhone Art – Trippy Male Nun
by mentalswitch The original photo was shot in the my studio but the processing was done in my phone.
Oh Noes!!11! Glacirs not meltin. Mak IPCC bad!
In case you haven’t heard, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is dead, done in by the nefarious failure to check a single reference in a 3000 page report. Or rather, […]
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